PAIS (Punjab AI System)

PAIS (Punjab AI System) is an advanced artificial intelligence technology that can register, identify and anticipate criminal activity. With specialized eyewear that will recognize a suspect and flash his or her criminal data on the glass screen — the Punjab Police are, indeed, set to go hi-tech. The first in the country to enroll themselves with a pilot project started by a Gurgaon-based company, details of 80,000 criminals have already been fed into a server connected to the eyeglasses to be worn by the men in khaki. Gathering and feeding in data was an arduous exercise that took a year.

Highlights:

• The eyewear, that looks like Google Glass (an optical head-mounted display designed in the shape of a pair of eyeglasses), can help spot a suspect in a crowd. Not just the criminal’s name, but his entire criminal history can be accessed in a few seconds.
• This technology is a quantum jump for prevention of crime. Smart glasses will solve the problem, recognizing the iris and face contours, even if the criminal is disguised. As of now, the police have to put up posters of proclaimed offenders to get a clue on their whereabouts and track them down.

Technology:
Each of these glasses have an in-built camera that “captures input” to trigger facial recognition. Identifying the suspect from the digitised criminal database, it projects the results on the glass screen. The ‘smart glass’ fuses speech and image recognition to identify potential threats to society — criminals, intruders and terrorists.

By: Dr. Vivek Rana